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East Meets West (1995) English Subtitles
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- East Meets West, Samurai Western, Samurai, Ninja, Assissin, Pony Express, Cowboys, Indians, The Crow, Spaghetti Eastern, Watch East Meets West, Samurai in Old West America, Director: Okamoto Kihachi, Sanada Hiroyuki, Takenaka Naoto, Japanese cinema, Samurai Film, Samurai Cowboy Movie, Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, BodyworkIT, Jidaigeki
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East Meets West
Author: Gerow, Aaron
Japanase Title: East Meets West
Director: Okamoto Kihachi
Release Date: August 12, 1995
Credits: Production Company: Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions
Release: 12 August 1995
Director: Okamoto Kihachi
Kamijo Kenkichi: Sanada Hiroyuki
Tamejiro: Takenaka Naoto
Nantai: Angelique Roehm
Sam: Scott Bachicha
Only in his latest film, East Meets West, has Okamoto gotten the chance to play Cowboys and Indians for real. Beyond being billed as a “samurai western,” East Meets West represents multiple efforts to join the opposite ends of the map–the Japanese director, his staff and cast combined with an American cast and crew to film largely on location in the United States the tale of the first Japanese mission to the United States in 1860, just at the time the Pony Express was joining the West Coast with the East.
An interpreter working for the mission, the samurai Kamijo Kenkichi (Sanada Hiroyuki), finds himself trekking across the Wild West in pursuit of a gang of robbers when they steal the mission’s gold in San Francisco. He is soon joined in his quest by a blond youngster, Sam (Scott Bachicha), whose father was killed by the gang-leader Gus Taylor (Chip Mayer); an inept ninja from the mission, Tamejiro (Takenaka Naoto) and his flower child lover, the Crow Indian Nantai (Angelique Roehm); and an ornery but honorable teacher named Hardy (Jay Kerr) who leads his once-delinquent charges in a quest for law and order. This rag-tag posse of Occidentals and Orientals makes its way to New Mexico to wreck revenge on the evil Gus, get back the gold, and clean up the town of Unicorn in the process.
Along the way, the story pursues various possibilities of Japan meeting the West. As the American posse members all have certain curiously Japanese traits, with Hardy using Japanese school tricks to punish his pupils and Sam showing an unbelievable aptitude towards the Japanese sword, the largely de-sexed Kamijo, with his nickname Joe, is transformed in the film into a Shane-like, “white” hero who becomes a father figure to Sam. In contrast, the sexually obsessed Tamejiro, called Tommy, soon finds in the Indians not only an easy-to-bed partner in Nantai, but shared words and songs, an identity that turns him away from his desire to become a samurai and transforms him in clothing and behavior into an American Indian. The liberation of the two from the constraints of Japanese identity within the wide-open spaces the West, where one’s identity is defined solely upon honor and skill, may in fact hint at one the reasons Japanese have felt such an attraction to the American Western: the fantasy of erasing one’s pre-given social identity and starting again on an equal plain in another space using only individual ability.
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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 Allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, Teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use Permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own anything in this video. All rights respectively go to Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions and artists. This is for entertainment purposes only. I do not make any money from this video. I am not affiliated with Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions.
East Meets West
Author: Gerow, Aaron
Japanase Title: East Meets West
Director: Okamoto Kihachi
Release Date: August 12, 1995
Credits: Production Company: Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions
Release: 12 August 1995
Director: Okamoto Kihachi
Kamijo Kenkichi: Sanada Hiroyuki
Tamejiro: Takenaka Naoto
Nantai: Angelique Roehm
Sam: Scott Bachicha
Only in his latest film, East Meets West, has Okamoto gotten the chance to play Cowboys and Indians for real. Beyond being billed as a “samurai western,” East Meets West represents multiple efforts to join the opposite ends of the map–the Japanese director, his staff and cast combined with an American cast and crew to film largely on location in the United States the tale of the first Japanese mission to the United States in 1860, just at the time the Pony Express was joining the West Coast with the East.
An interpreter working for the mission, the samurai Kamijo Kenkichi (Sanada Hiroyuki), finds himself trekking across the Wild West in pursuit of a gang of robbers when they steal the mission’s gold in San Francisco. He is soon joined in his quest by a blond youngster, Sam (Scott Bachicha), whose father was killed by the gang-leader Gus Taylor (Chip Mayer); an inept ninja from the mission, Tamejiro (Takenaka Naoto) and his flower child lover, the Crow Indian Nantai (Angelique Roehm); and an ornery but honorable teacher named Hardy (Jay Kerr) who leads his once-delinquent charges in a quest for law and order. This rag-tag posse of Occidentals and Orientals makes its way to New Mexico to wreck revenge on the evil Gus, get back the gold, and clean up the town of Unicorn in the process.
Along the way, the story pursues various possibilities of Japan meeting the West. As the American posse members all have certain curiously Japanese traits, with Hardy using Japanese school tricks to punish his pupils and Sam showing an unbelievable aptitude towards the Japanese sword, the largely de-sexed Kamijo, with his nickname Joe, is transformed in the film into a Shane-like, “white” hero who becomes a father figure to Sam. In contrast, the sexually obsessed Tamejiro, called Tommy, soon finds in the Indians not only an easy-to-bed partner in Nantai, but shared words and songs, an identity that turns him away from his desire to become a samurai and transforms him in clothing and behavior into an American Indian. The liberation of the two from the constraints of Japanese identity within the wide-open spaces the West, where one’s identity is defined solely upon honor and skill, may in fact hint at one the reasons Japanese have felt such an attraction to the American Western: the fantasy of erasing one’s pre-given social identity and starting again on an equal plain in another space using only individual ability.
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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 Allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, Teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use Permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own anything in this video. All rights respectively go to Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions and artists. This is for entertainment purposes only. I do not make any money from this video. I am not affiliated with Shochiku, Feature Film Enterprise III, Kihachi Productions.
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